pinelandn.
/ˈpʌɪnland/, U.S. /ˈpaɪnˌlænd/ Chiefly U.S.
Land, esp. in the southern United States, on which pine trees are the characteristic growth; a tract of land covered in pine trees. Cf. pine barren n.
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ripplelOE
wildwooda1122
rough1332
firth?a1400
tod stripec1446
osiard1509
bush1523
bush-ground1523
fritha1552
island1638
oak landc1658
pinelandc1658
piney wood1666
broom-land1707
pine barrenc1721
pine savannah1735
savannah1735
thick woods1754
scrub-land1779
olive wood1783
primeval forest1789
open wood1790
strong woods1792
scrub1805
oak flata1816
sertão1816
sprout-land1824
flatwoods1841
bush-land1842
tall timber1845
amber forest1846
caatinga1846
mahogany scrub1846
bush-flat1847
myall country1847
national forest1848
selva1849
monte1851
virgin forest1851
bush-country1855
savannah forest1874
bush-range1879
bushveld1879
protection forest1889
mulga1896
wood-bush1896
shinnery1901
fringing forest1903
monsoon forest1903
rainforest1903
savannah woodland1903
thorn forest1903
tropical rainforest1903
gallery forest1920
cloud forest1922
rain jungle1945
mato1968
c1658 in H. S. Nourse Early Rec. Lancaster, Mass. (1884) 271 Thare is another peice of upland..Sum part pine Land & partly oak Land.
1735 Georgia Hist. Soc. Coll. (1842) 2 45 We encamped there, and found..the pine land very valuable.
1789 J. Morse Amer. Geogr. 446 They are often to be found in pine lands in the southern states.
1857 Trans. Michigan Agric. Soc. 8 643 There is, in the county, about 163,000 acres of pine lands.
1881 Harper's Mag. Jan. 319/1 In the pine-lands a thunder-bolt sometimes fell with even swifter stroke.
1948 Sat. Evening Post 4 Sept. 30/1 There was a stillness here in the flat lonesome pinelands.
1989 C. R. Wilson & W. Ferris Encycl. Southern Culture 39/2 Factors in Savannah, Jacksonville, Pensacola, and Mobile obtained control of large tracts of pine land.
Compounds
attributive. Designating something located in or near a tract of pineland.
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1767 J. Bartram Jrnl. 20 Jan. in W. Stork Acct. E. Florida 42 Our host went over the river to shoot geese in the pine-land ponds.
1838 C. Gilman Recoll. Southern Matron xxiii. 157 There is something picturesque in the evening hour at a pine-land village.
1845 W. G. Simms Wigwam & Cabin 2nd Ser. 100 Do they trouble you very much in the pine land field?
1903 ‘P. Pennington’ Woman Rice Planter (1913) i. 53 Drove S—— to church in our little pine-land village; she seemed to enjoy the very simple service.
1988 Nature Conservancy May 30/1 The savanna also hosts Cooley's meadowrue (Thalictrum cooleyi),..and pineland plantain (Plantago sparsiflora).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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